“Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational cannabis”

Oct 17, 2018 | In the news

Surely this a no brainer, Mrs May. We have to be the first country on this side of the pond to legalise pot (probably a good sign that I don’t know what the call it these days). A huge tax take and thousands of tourists  who’d cause no trouble at all. Then follow-up with another snap election; none of the Brexit-hating, Corbyn-loving students would bother to get out of bed to vote.

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.

“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.